First of all, here's a definition of "democracy" for you:
http://education.yahoo.com/reference.../d0123400.html
Since you're no longer responding to my posts showing how your previous "facts" are wrong, I'll take that as your admittance.
Now, it really doesn't do much for your cause to pick links from sites like the Washington Report (don't be fooled by the name, it's an Arab magazine funded by the Saudi government, and has two editors (Richard Curtiss and Andrew Killgore) with long links to Holocaust denial groups like the Liberty Lobby. For a glimpse at where it stands on even-handedness, take a look at their list of charities:
http://www.washington-report.org/cha...ions/index.htm
So, you'll excuse me if I ignore an opinion piece written by them, just as I'd expect you to ignore an opinon piece I post from a settler website. Same credibility.
And same goes for the "facts" listed on your site "Palestine Remembered". If they have a need to remember it, it is their own fault. They are fighting now to get what they had but rejected in both 1948 and 1967.
Regarding the new marriage law, it's an extremely controversial one, even in Israel. It was meant as a counter to numerous recent cases where it was found that Palestinians who committed acts of terrorism entered Israel from the West Bank & Gaza by marrying Israeli Arabs and obtaining Israeli citizenship. While this tries to counter that loophole, I am against it and I expect it to be repealed.
And for your last link, it's an old story and it's changed. It seems that although some sites such as "Palestine-UN" are jumping all over it, this is something that is actually based in law founded well before the current uprising. Anyways, the case was heard in the Israeli High Court of Justice and policy changed. The old law said that in order to maintain Jerusalem residency status, you needed to maintain contact with Jerusalem within a 7 year period. As in, if you moved out of Jerusalem for 7 years, you were no longer a resident. The problem was that, it used to go relatively unenforced and was now being enforced more strictly.
Here's an article on the court case:
High Court orders review of Arab residency cancellations in Jerusalem
http://www-origin.jpost.com/com/Arch...Article-7.html
And here's the change in policy:
East Jerusalemites will not be stripped of Permanent Residency even after 7 years
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0fvz0
And now about the $9 billion. First of all, it's $2.7/year and 2/3 of it is military, which as you may expect MUST be spent on US technology (ie purchasing equipment from Raytheon, etc). As well, the US recieves Israeli intelligence & technology pretty much whenever they want. In these post 9/11 times, Israeli intelligence is something you may want to keep.
And if you wnt another thing you get out of it, see your post on 09-17-2003 12:06 PM. We've been through this.